Spring 2022

Section 6133 of THAR1
World Theatre Through Time -- : Jan 19 - May 18 2022
Zoom meetings will take place for each class session at the days/time(s) listed. Students are expected to be online with a functioning mic, and/or camera for the duration of the live session. More details will be provided in the syllabus distributed by the instructor.

Section 6134 of THAR2
Introduction to Theatre Arts -- : Jan 20 - May 19 2022
Zoom meetings will take place for each class session at the days/time(s) listed. However, this course also includes some in-person components: viewing live theatrical performances and completing 10 production hours by working in the scene shop, costume studio, ushering for the live performances, or completing publicity. All students who will be on the college campus spring 2022 must verify their vaccination status with the college. For the Zoom class meetings, students are expected to be online with a functioning mic, and/or camera for the duration of the live session. More details will be provided in the syllabus distributed by the instructor.

Fall 2021

Section 2149 of THAR1
World Theatre Through Time -- : Aug 16 - Dec 08 2021
Zoom meetings will take place for each class session at the days/time(s) listed above. Students are expected to be online with a functioning mic, and/or camera for the duration of the live session. More details will be provided in the syllabus distributed by the instructor.

Monday

  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AMBurbank Auditorium110Santa Rosa Campus

Tuesday

  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AMBurbank Auditorium110Santa Rosa Campus

Wednesday

  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AMBurbank Auditorium110Santa Rosa Campus

Thursday

  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AMBurbank Auditorium110Santa Rosa Campus
BA Theatre Ohio State University
MA TESL Hunter College, NYC
MA Masters in Theology McCormick Theological Seminary
MA Theatre University of Colorado
PhD Theatre University of Colorado
Academic Experience
Headmaster/teacher Shamusinjiri Secondary School
Instructor Jiansu Agricultural College, China
Acting teacher University of Colorado
Instructor/Director Santa Rosa Jr. College
I was raised in Columbus Ohio and have lived in Keyna, China, Guatemala, and Scotland. I have two adopted children from Guatemala. , I have lived and directed theatre in many parts of the world: I was a headmaster in a high school in Kenya when I was in my 20s, two years in China during the Tiananmen Square conflict , three years in Guatemala where I was the Artistic Director of El Sitio Players as well a three-month honey-moon in India where I directed high-school theatre, a spiritual community in Scotland, a seminary in Chicago where I got my first Masters in Theology, New York City where I got a Masters in TESL, Colorado where I got my Masters and PhD in Theatre at CU in Boulder. I have one book published Grappling with Atrocity: Guatemalan Theatre in the 90s and dedicated it to my two adopted children from Guatemala, Maggie and Giancarlo and my wife Elizabeth who died of Leukemia in October 2006. At the college I have directed Once in a Lifetime, 4x4, Dead Man Walking, Circus Acts and Anatomy of Gray, Macbeth, Barbara Kingsolver Stories, Voice of the Prairie, Jesus Christ Superstar, Our Town, Trouble in Mind, and Distracted. This fall I will be directing The Phantom of the Opera.

I love teaching and learning from the insights of students who are engaged, open and wanting to stretch their minds by reading new voices in the theatre.
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